I never planned to become a blogger. I'm a Physics and Electronics student who got tired of reading tech reviews that felt fake, sponsored, and written for clicks rather than real people. So I built ReviByte. No team. No roadmap. No relevant tutorials to follow. Just curiosity and a willingness to figure things out alone. Here's what 121 days taught me. 1. Picking the right platform changes everything I started on Blogger. Then WordPress. Both gave me chronic indexing failures, redirect errors, and zero control over my own site. Then I found Astro. Specifically AstroPaper — a minimal, fast, markdown-based blog template. I taught myself Astro without any relevant YouTube tutorials. Just documentation, trial and error, and a lot of broken builds. It was worth every broken build. 2. SEO is not magic — it's patience I spent weeks fixing things most bloggers never touch. Trailing slash mismatches causing redirect loops. Broken sitemap filters blocking tag pages from being indexed.…